for its fruit, we should have scarcely suspected the relation- 

 ship of the two : it has the habit, leaves, and inflorescence, 

 of P. Aria, rather than of P. communis ; but it is no doubt 

 abundantly distinct both from it and all other species. 

 That the cultivated Pear does now comprehend the traces 

 of more than one distinct species, as M. De Candolle has 

 elsewhere suggested, we believe; but P. sinaica, nivalis, 

 salvifolia, salicifolia, and their kindred, are more likely 

 than this species to have intermixed with the common 

 Pear. 



A tree, with stout, erect branches, having the habit of 

 P. Aria, and growing to about the same size. The buds 

 are large and downy. Leaves on long stalks, deep green, 

 coarsely and rather unevenly serrated, downy beneath. 

 Corymbs of flowers very dense ; the calyj: covered with 

 dense wool ; the petals small and white. These are suc- 

 ceeded by a small number of little yellowish-orange tur- 

 binate pendulous fruit, which are austere and hard. 



Of no value as a fruit, but common in Shrubberies as 

 an ornamental tree. The Nurserymen graft it upon the 

 Crabstock. 



J. L. 



